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Juan O'Gorman, Daniel Cosío Villegas, and the Mexican Historical Profession: An Interview with Josefina Zoraida Vázquez

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2015

William H. Beezley
William H. Beezley*
Affiliation:
University of ArizonaTucson, Arizona
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Professor Josefina Zoraida Vázquez has made an indelible imprint on the discipline of the history of Mexico. Her publications have provided an analysis of the Mexican experience through such diverse themes as the U.S. invasion (1846-1848), the evolution of national education programs, and the struggles to establish federalism and republicanism in the first decades of independence. She has written official textbooks used by all Mexican school children, appeared on numerous television programs, taught dozens of doctoral students, and assisted many scholars in both Mexico and the United States. She has been an active member of the historical profession; she organized the Congress of Mexican Historians from Mexico, the United States, and Canada in Patzcuaro in 1977 and served as the President of the same organization in Monterrey in 2003.

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Research Article
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The Americas , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , October 2010 , pp. 253 - 268
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2010

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1. William H. Beezley, University of Arizona, interviewed Professor Vázquez at the Colegio de México, January 28, 2009. The interview was transcribed and translated by Diana Montano, a Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona. This is an abridged version of the full interview, which can be obtained with appendices that include a bibliography of her publications and a list of the theses she has directed from Bcezley@u.arizona.edu.

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